We Must Confront the Seeker with the Truth
Although
it is not popular among modern, post-modern and post-postmodern worship leaders
to sing any religious text that might confront a “seeker” or “worshiper”, it is
exactly what God commanded Moses to do in this situation. I find no place in the New Testament where
our Lord commanded musicians to quit confronting the “seeker” and the
“worshiper” or any person who is in God’s house with the claims of
Scripture.
Jesus certainly confronted people with
the truth of what God required. He did
not say to the money changers in the Second Temple “God loves you and has a
wonderful plan for your life.” I want to
make it very clear that I am not contending for worship music to be highly
confrontational or negative because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is good news
–not bad, negative, depressing news. The
tenor of public worship should be a joyful and reverential adoration of the
Trinity. However, to ignore the entire
truth taught in the Bible is shortsighted and less than honest.
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